Why UFOs Do Not Use Reactive Propulsion Toward a New Ontology of Motion

Modern physics has almost universally interpreted motion through the paradigm of reaction: every advance requires an expenditure of energy and a loss of mass. The rocket is the supreme embodiment of this principle. Yet life presents another, fundamentally different mode of motion. A growing organism advances not by consuming itself but by increasing its own being through assimilation of its environment. This paper proposes that these two modes represent not merely different technologies but two distinct ontologies. Reactive motion is driven by self-loss; ontological motion is driven by self-growth. From this perspective, reports of unidentified aerial phenomena—if understood as manifestations of a civilization operating according to an ontological rather than reactive principle—need not be interpreted as violations of physics but as expressions of a deeper relationship between motion and Being. The article introduces the concept of ontological propulsion, in which movement arises through increasing coherence with the generative order of reality rather than through expulsion of matter. Such an approach suggests a radically different understanding of technology, civilization, and humanity's future beyond the reactive age. Author portal: https://sites.google.com/view/yermakov-orcid